6. Krisha can pick 4 pounds of coffee beans in an hour or gather 2 pounds of...
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6. Krisha can pick 4 pounds of coffee beans in an hour or gather 2 pounds of nuts. Tom can pick 2 pounds of coffee beans in an hour or gather 4 pounds of nuts. Each works 6 hours per day. (LO2)
a. Together, what is the maximum number of pounds of coffee beans the two can pick in a day? What is the maximum number of pounds of nuts the two can gather in a day?
b. Now suppose Krisha and Tom were gathering the maximum number of pounds of nuts when they decided that they would like to begin picking 8 pounds of coffee per day. Who would pick the coffee, and how many pounds of nuts would they still be able to gather?
c. Would it be possible for Krisha and Tom in total to gather 26 pounds of nuts and pick 20 pounds of coffee each day? If so, how much of each good should each person pick?
d. Is the point at 30 pounds of coffee per day, 12 pounds of nuts per day an attainable point? Is it an efficient point?
e. On a graph with pounds of coffee per day on the vertical axis and pounds of nuts per day on the horizontal axis, show all the points you identified in parts a–d.
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Principles Of Microeconomics
ISBN: 9781264250387,9781264250448
8th Edition
Authors: Robert H. Frank , Ben Bernanke , Kate Antonovics , Ori Heffetz